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Drawing, Design for a Silk Damask

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1815–1840 and we acquired it in 1909. Its medium is brush and white, brown, green, lilac, and red opaque watercolor (partly applied at the reverse) on oily traving paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

46.5 × 18.8 cm (18 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Reverse, top left: Presentation note written with pencil

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Silk Damask; France; brush and white, brown, green, lilac, and red opaque watercolor (partly applied at the reverse) on oily traving paper; 46.5 × 18.8 cm (18 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1909-13-13

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